The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-01
The United States Senate at Last
Echoes the Voice of Amer
lean freeman.
Dae Notice. Served 30 John Bull
'.n.Y;.and fhe Dominica to Show
j,.:a Hands Up.
The Refalistory Bill Passed With
But One. Dissenting Voice,
Blddlebergers.

tk0 6eoery Dill ecD4eof RYE Proeeooeo 70
particufariEe many of the outFages to
which the American fishery vessels had
been subiected in =. Canadian waters.
Anoux them Was he case of an Americas
vessel which had brought into Canadian
port seventeen ship wrecked Canadian
sailors and been refused the right 70 pur-
chase "a barrel of -four TO
hssp her crew from starvation.
He. DECLARED that the annals of history
even the Feiee Islands might be search
ed without finding case so brutal and SO
inhnman. He also quoted the case of the
Marion Grimes, an American schooner
whose Gag was hauled down by Captain
Quigley, of the Canadian cutter Terror"
Ali these cases had been brought TO the Mt.
tention Of the British government that
government knew the utter inhumanity of
these eases and knew that 81 -: g..
oyTRAGEs HAD BEEN COMMITTED. -.
in violation of law as well as of good
peighborhood. i-'4
Senator Vest inquired of Senator Frye,
whether In the case of the hauling down
of the American flag, the government of
Great Britain endorsed that action of Capt.
Quigley, and whether on the contrary,
vowed the act, and spologized, for it. He
read from the report, a note from the
English foreign Office to the Canadian
government on the subject.
Senator Edmunds Suggested that Capt.
Quigley was still in the governments SER
vice. t ri'iF H---. "
Senator Frye quoted from a recent
statute passed by the Dominion
government in still further hos
tility TO American fisherman and said
that that legislature had been appointed
by the British government. The hope,
therefore, that Great Britain would do
what was fair and Just was destroyed, and
il might have been known that that would
have been the result There was not
line be said, in the history of Great Britain
for the last three hundred years that gave
the slightest reason to believe that In the
pursuit of gain or in the pursuit of trade
she would ever
PERMIT THE RIGHT OF ANOTHER
to stand in the way of her progress. Every
one of the cases he had referred to was in
violation of the spirit and four out of five
of them were in violation of the letter of
the treaty of 1918. Every one of them was
in violation of the rules of good neighbor-
hood, of the civilization of the day and of
the understanding of all civilized nations
a to the rights of foreign ships in their
that they were 81, O00, 600; they knew
that they were the richest nation
of the - earth. They knew
their power and they
WOULD MOT HUMILIAFE THEMSELVES
and do violence to the,r conscious pride
by 'resorting to little miserable tricks and
outrsges by way of retaliation. What the
committee on foreign relations sought was
that the president of the United States
should be empowered to;elose American
ports against any fishermen or all fisher
men against any merchant vessel or all
merchant vessels. The Queen of Great
Britain had to-day the power to close her
ports against any of the pro-
ducts of the whole world if
she. saw fit He saw no objection to en-
trusting that power TO the president He
believed that the president. would only
have to take advantage of this bill and
issue his proclamation that ..f..
NO FISH, Fresh OR SALT,
or canned or smo ked the product of
Canadian fisheries shall be landed In any
port of the United States and not another
outrage by this. British colony would be
heard OF, but if these outrages were to con-
tinue, and were to result In reciprocity
treaty las had been the case before), that
treaty would again be abrogated and the |
ontrages would be again renewed. The |
went farther than this bill. |
IL, L..
absolute nom intercourse. He did not be- |
lieve that the house committee on foreign |
affairs would have reported that bill with |
out knowing whether or not the admins |
tration was in sympathy with the bill. |
The senator from Maryland (Mr. Cor
man, had introduced resolutions on the |
same subject some time ago and that SEN
ator was known TO be. a friend of the admin
istration. &c. ..l,.-t-..
The secretary of the treasury, one of the |
brightest men in the administration, had
lately sent a communication to the senate |
the conduct of Canada in this |
matter and had declared il
:, SIMPLY BRULAL. ....
8 The secretary of state had used Dip |
lomatic language ION the subject but even
he had said lover and over again) the acts |
Of the Canadian authorities were outrages
and that the United States would demand |
restitution. 1ssa 3
Senator Gray quoted the sec
rotary of the navy as characteriing |
in note to Minister Vest the acts of the |
Canadian authorities as Unacceptable and |
inhuman." -., ,f.,.- ,-
Senator Frye added that the American |
minister to England (Phelps) had made
AZ unexcepiionable, clear, complete, and |
% him, an entirely satisfactory statement |
,t the whole case. He. believed that the
president was in favor of protecting the
rights Of every American citizen. He. be-
ieSed that ne Wasgo.A s-lrs az
- FH1 AN HONEST MAN, sE:a
md if it were passed, the power which it /
would put int his hands would be used |
for the protection of American rights
Senator ingalls,, said that, one object |